Richard Cotter

Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.

1760 posts by Richard Cotter

national poetry month: an august company


Nandi Chinna, Renee Pettitt-Schipp, Daniel Hansen and Luke Sweedman, commissioned in 2019 for New Shoots WA

The first ever national Poetry Month kicks off 1 August with an exciting line-up of ambassadors sharing their personal reflections 

The 2021 Poetry Month

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the toll: wales fargo

 

The serenity for which he laboured was shattered as he realised the little time he had in life to read so much”.

What audacity to begin a film with a quote from John Edward William’s resurrected classic novel,

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secrets of happiness: escape the lock down

Allusions, evocations, attributions and direct discussions of Charles Dickens’ works run through Joan Silber’s compulsively readable SECRETS OF HAPPINESS, a novel of intoxicating interconnecting and interlocking lives full of twists, great expectations and mutual friends.

Half a dozen narrators take …

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the grizzlies: lacrosse to bear

A little bit To Sir With Love, a little bit Wake in Fright, THE GRIZZLIES is the inspiring true story of first-year teacher Russ Sheppard, who takes a temporary assignment to teach at a high school in Kugluktuk, a small …

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the shut ins: beyond the binge

THE SHUT INS seems a timely title in this age of lock-down.

Rather than a novel about the consequences of a contagion, Katherine Brabon’s book concerns the phenomenon coined hikikomori in Japan.

Hikikomori is the collective term of those who …

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victoria mackinlay: two tales of tails

She’s bark!

Winner of the 2020 State Library of NSW Emerging Children’s Author Award, Victoria Mackinlay has a new bark, I mean book. It’s called THE BARK BOOK

Like her previous book, the ripper Ribbit Rabbit Robot, THE BARK BOOK …

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hell of a book: white pages black ink

“Just a raging, brilliant, shitstorm of a book!” says a minor character in Jason Mott’s HELL OF A BOOK.

They got that right!

HELL OF A BOOK is a helluva book, a crazy, curly, profane, profound and provocative book, a …

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